Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-29

tnat mObt heavenly bcl6nCe tnaL OPENS
to youthful minds, the love Of the
Savior Of the human race, who de-
scended from heaven to earth, and in
the form of a man became child for
their sakes, becoming obedient in all
things and bearing the yoke with
patience and resignation, till he SUI
fered and died out of pure love for
them. Such an education does not
look ON religion as the first
and most principal object of edu-
cation, the principles of which
arc a constant curb against
every vicious inclination against
every disorderly passion, and against
all that can lead to moral wreck and
ruin. Now can child be educated in
the solid principles of virtue when
God and religion are excluded from
the form and spirit of such an educa-
ton? If you were to give a superior
secular education without being ac-
companied with the principles OF NOR
atty, you would establish principle,
which in its logical sequence, would
turn out into the world a material,
gross, ambitious, avaricious and dis
contented generation, that would rebel
against all constituted authority, and
overturn whatever sacredness and
protection there is in society. All!
that education is not good, my breth-
rem, which takes away the "yoke" from /
youth. 1t is our duty to give such
an education as will go between those
two extremes of danger, and which
shall not only form the judgment of
youth for the purposes OF life, but
teach them also the way of virtue in
which they should walk an education,
which has for its end to substitute for
the heavy yoke imposed by our de-
praved fallen nature and the conons
Of a wicked world, that other sweet
yoke of Christ, to which He invites,
Take my yoke upon you and you
shall find rest to your souls, for my
yoke is sweet and my burthen light"
If YOU really wish to draw down
upon YOU the benediction of heaven,
YOU cannot secure it better than by
contributing to this important end.
Remember that our Divine Savior
loves the little children and proposed
them as models for His Apostles
to initiate, and, that whosoever
should scandalize one of those little
one, it were better for him that mill
stone were tied around his neck and
he were cast into the depths of the
sea.
Oh, what a dreadful account you
shall have to give to God, if through
your neglect of his children, instead
of being models become a scandal
and castaways, if instead of growing
up in simplicity and innocence, which
are the characteristics of their age,
they become artful and deceitful and
hypocritical, rebellious and disobedi-
ent, then they become for you a bur-
then and disgrace and nothing better
than generation of baptized pagans
Danish far away from you such
a reproach. Preserve for your chill
dren the teaching of that faith, with
out which it is impossible to please
God. Teach them its importance, its
beauty and its grandeur, and what
their fathers have suffered for it.
Leave nothing undone, that their ed
ucation, instead of being an imperfect,
stunted, lopsided, ghost of an educa-
ton, may be the real and true train
ing of their moral and intellectual
faculties, which in the course of their
life shall preserve their footsteps in
the way of Justice and truth, and be-
come for them safeguard against
evil T; which shall accustom them to
the true and real benefit of discipline,
and to bear the yoke of Christ even
from their youth.
DIR. FAy's ABLE DISCOURSE ON HAPPI-
NESS.
A large and attentive audience was
present at the Church of Unity yes
terday morning to hear the sermon
preached by DIR. Eli Fay on Happiness.
He took for his text, John xiii, II, "If
We know these things happy are you
that do them." "In what condition
OF life," began the speaker, .'is happi-
ness found? The identical state of
mind that would do for one would be
Objectionable to another. There is no
standard by which to Judge happiness.
To one couple rest would be it, while
to another the sprightly go-as-you-
please nature would compose his hap
piness. There is no period in which
fickleness, gaity, and sprightleness
are so unhappy as in childhood. We
shall prove that the gaity of childhood
is unworthy of comparison with tie
stable satisfaction of the statesman
and the unripe fruit of spring equal to
the ripeness of autumn.
The experience of the aged to the
young seems very limited, because
they don't understand the life of the
older persons. Is the happiness of a
rational being only mere efferves-
cence OF animal spirit, as with the
child? Then must alcohol be great
boon, for it exhiliarates the nerves.
Then must the man who staggered
through the streets with pint of
whisky last night be the philosopher.
Do you think a lamb, lark, the
child, has the slightest conception of
true happiness? A winsome, joyous
life is the childhood, but it adds
nothing to the lasting happiness of
the man. We would't have it
changed. God understood his busi-
ness when he made his children thus.
1t was predicted that life should be
enriched from dawn to dusk. You
might be glad to live childhood over
that you may be farther along than
now, put do not belive that any of
you would want to live childhood
over for the pleasure it gave
We can now inquire what happinessis.
Grant that the sprightliness of the lamb
or the child has certain kind of joy
in them. God shakes the old troubles
out of us, and bids us to do away with
long faces. God intended that we
should all lead happy lives and gave
us the gifts with which to become SO.
Man was made to be happy. Some
philosophers taught that some ought
to suffer everlastingly for God. am
not willing to suffer for any being.
We have no respect for him who wants
only enjoyment for its own sake, yet
/ we do not heliaya in aalf-ipAictad emf